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As a public service, having deactivated the GagOMeter temporarily, after being struck by how many times blubba used the word "I" in the first paragraph (not to mention the whoppers he told, such as when he grew up during the Civil War), I submit this incomplete review of the first ten paragraphs. (I couldn't keep the GagOMeter silent any longer.)

This is at least how often blubba used each of the following words in the first ten paragraphs. I may have missed some. Use of "we" as noted here is when blubba is claiming victory or identification with a group, such as his administration, rather than making a general statement.

Watch Bill Clinton refer to himself in the first ten paragraphs
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I = 44 times
me = 5 times
my = 7 times
we = 12

It stood out that he often uses "I" when it is totally unnecessary; for example, where a factual statement could be made, he begins it by saying something like, "I want to tell you about how I handled this situation."

I could go through it line by line and drive us all insane, but ones like this:

I've come here too many times when I thought there were not enough students in this hall

particularly drive me nuts; I always think he's saying "Look how many people came to see me -- more than anybody else I've seen in here!"

Here's another one:

"Now here's how I think you ought to think about this."

To me, that's awfully close to "We can't give you a tax break, you might not spend it the right way."

In contrast to the times the impeached, disgraced boy president used personal pronouns, I counted this many uses of "I, me," and "my" in President Bush's speech in Atlanta Thursday night. Just the first ten paragraphs. I didn't count the uses of "we" because Bush uses the word overwhelmingly to refer to us as a nation when using this word, rather than the giants on whose shoulders he might claim to stand within his administration.

Watch President Bush refer to himself in his November 8 speech
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I = 1
me = 0
my = 0

I turned lose my computer on this, so that I didn't have to actually read this stuff. Counting all words (or word-like sequences) in the whole article, the most popular 80 words, with their counts, were:

393	the	87	have	46	not	34	as	29	our	23	at	20	get	18	million
261	to	81	it	45	do	31	who	27	will	23	America	19	when	18	It
241	and	79	is	44	world	31	We	27	their	22	said	19	us	18	here
186	of	63	s	44	was	31	from	25	think	21	ve	19	up	17	them
181	in	61	people	42	on	30	years	25	can	21	so	19	time	17	no
168	a	57	they	41	be	30	what	25	about	21	ought	19	than	17	just
128	we	54	this	39	with	30	were	24	there	21	like	19	out	17	been
121	you	53	for	38	t	30	more	24	has	21	he	18	would	16	your
112	that	53	are	36	because	30	but	23	if	20	other	18	say	16	very
111	I	49	all	35	And	29	re	23	by	20	or	18	one	16	The

Gretchen, I just have to comment on the use of the personal pronoun by clinton. I remember a few years ago watching a biography of #41, GHW Bush, W's father, when it was mentioned that he was actually reprimanded repeatedly by his mother for using the pronoun "I" too many times. Contrast that with x42 who seems to have been coddled just a bit too much by his own mother. Honestly, what a spoiled brat clinton was.

George HW was scolded and quite mercilessly apparently, and clinton just walks. And we all have to suffer for his ego.

And the very few times Bush uses the word I, it is usually followed by "am humbled" or "honored to be with", etc.